muti

Definitions

1. Traditional African medicine.
   South-Africa, countable, uncountable
2. A surname from Italian.

Equivalents

Examples

“The witchdoctor shop⟳ with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like⟳ a dark wooden mask.”

“Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.”

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